Red Devils

When you have just spent £150million in the transfer market and secured a player of the quality of Angel di Maria, then a forward who only four years ago was playing for Stocksbridge Park Steels really should not be making you look a mug. But Louis van Gaal will have to accept that Jamie Vardy was chief among a spirited group of Leicester City players who embarrassed Manchester United’s manager and a side that remains some way off the level required to return to the summit of the English game.